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- This disclosure relates to a vacuum insulating glazing (VIG) unit.
- VOG vacuum insulating glazing
- the vacuum evacuation head also known as all metal cup. And sealing of the evacuation tube with a heater inside the evacuation head.
- Vacuum insulating glazing (VIG) units typically comprise two glass panes spaced by pillars, sealed at the periphery and having an evacuated interior void.
- the void is evacuated with an evacuation head through a hole in the pane to a pressure such as 1E-6 bar.
- US2006175767 discloses a VIG unit and an evacuation head being 70 mm.
- the disclosure deals with a gasket to ensure a good seal.
- Paragraph [0061] does mention an evacuation head diameter of 50 mm to 100 mm.
- US20120148795 deals with the sealing of the evacuation hole. It discloses a prior art evacuation tube and evacuation head with a coil heater (FIG. 2a) which is used to melt the tube tip (also known as the tip off).
- a coil heater FIG. 2a
- VIG For decades there has been ongoing work with VIG gazing due to the promising insulation value which enables great energy savings to buildings. Production of VIG units however still has several drawbacks and lifetime challenges. It would be desirable to provide a better contact seal between the evacuation head and the glass pane. Further it would be desirable to provide an enhanced evacuation tube seal by better temperature application and better tube tip off. Further it would be desirable to provide a tempered glass VIG.
- the disclosure relates to method, a VIG manufacture facility and a VIG unit.
- a VIG manufacture facility and a VIG unit.
- Favorable embodiments are defined in the dependent claims.
- Other objectives, features and advantages will appear from the following detailed disclosure.
- the disclosure relates to the below specific aspects and embodiments.
- a method of producing a vacuum insulated glazing (VIG) unit comprising: providing first and second substantially parallel panes 1 , 2 , a plurality of pillars 4 and a peripheral seal 3 provided between the first and second panes 1 , 2 , where in the first pane 1 there is provided an evacuation hole 5 for evacuating a void V through the evacuation hole 5 to a pressure less than atmospheric pressure; wherein the panes 1 , 2 are tempered glass; on a glass pane face 1 a , covering the evacuation hole 5 with an evacuation head 8 , the evacuation head 8 adapted to have a substantially hermetic contact to the glass pane face 1 a ; wherein the evacuation head 8 contact width D to the pane face 1 a is less than 50 mm, preferably less than 45 mm; and evacuating the void V through the evacuation head 8 .
- VOG vacuum insulated glazing
- a method of producing a VIG unit according to the previous embodiment, wherein the evacuation head 8 is adapted to reduce the temperature difference in the VIG body beneath the evacuation head 8 from the temperature in the surrounding VIG body.
- a third embodiment of the first embodiment of the first aspect there is disclosed a method of producing a VIG unit according to any previous embodiment, wherein the VIG unit is in an oven and the void V is evacuated in the oven.
- a method of producing a VIG unit includes heating the VIG unit in the oven and in all steps keeping the temperature below an annealing temperature, which detrimentally affects the tempered glass, such as keeping the temperature below 400° C.
- a method of producing a VIG unit according to any previous embodiment, wherein the evacuating of the void V is done at 150° C. or more, preferably at 300° C. or more.
- a sixth embodiment of the first embodiment of the first aspect there is disclosed a method of producing a VIG unit according to any previous embodiment, wherein the temperature of the oven is between 150° C. and 400° C., preferably between 300° C. and 400° C.
- a seventh embodiment of the first embodiment of the first aspect there is disclosed a method of producing a VIG unit according to any previous embodiment, wherein the evacuating of the void V is done in the heated oven after substantially soldering the peripheral seal 3 .
- a ninth embodiment of the first embodiment of the first aspect there is disclosed a method of producing a VIG unit according to any previous embodiment, wherein an evacuation tube tip 6 b is sealed off by heat provided by a heat element 9 in the evacuating head 8 chamber 10 .
- a method of producing a VIG unit according to any previous embodiment, wherein the evacuation head 8 has a ceramic heating element 9 , and the method comprises: heating the ceramic heating element 9 and sealing off the tip 6 b of an evacuation tube 6 .
- a method of producing a VIG unit comprising: heating the ceramic heating element 9 to a first temperature to provide a more uniform VIG body temperature T 2 beneath the evacuation head 8 , and heating the ceramic heating element to a second temperature to tip off the tube 6 b.
- the evacuation tube 6 is an evacuation cap 18 comprising an evacuation port 20 and a solder glass ring 19 arranged around the evacuation port 20 .
- a vacuum insulated glazing (VIG) unit manufacture facility comprising an oven with a compartment adapted for heating a VIG unit, the oven comprising an evacuation head 8 in fluid communication with at least one vacuum pump, wherein the evacuation head 8 contact width D to the VIG is less than 50 mm, preferably less than 45 mm.
- the evacuation head 8 further comprising a ceramic heating element 9 .
- a VIG unit manufacture facility according to any of the previous embodiments of the second aspect, wherein the ceramic heating element 9 is displaceable and configured to contact an evacuation tube tip 6 b and preferably press the tube tip 6 b to tip off the tube 6 .
- a VIG unit manufacture facility configured to perform the method according to any of the first to fourteenth embodiments of the first aspect of the present disclosure.
- a vacuum insulated glazing (VIG) unit comprising tempered glass panes 1 , 2 comprising an evacuation cap 18 comprising an evacuation port 20 and a solder glass ring 19 arranged around the evacuation port 20 , wherein the evacuation cap 18 is arranged on a pane face 1 a of a first or second pane 1 , 2 and the evacuation cap 18 has a center distance substantially less than 25 mm from the pane 1 , 2 periphery, preferably less than 20 mm.
- VOG vacuum insulated glazing
- a VIG unit according to the first embodiment of the third aspect, where the evacuation cap 18 is further situated at the corner of the pane face 1 a , and the center distance hereby applies to both pane peripheries of said corner.
- VIG unit according to either the first or second embodiment of the third aspect, comprising a peripheral seal 3 and evacuation cap 18 seal 7 wherein both seals 3 , 7 are adapted to be soldered at substantially the same temperature.
- FIG. 1 shows a VIG unit.
- FIG. 2 shows a VIG unit and an evacuation head.
- FIG. 3 shows a close up example of the evacuation head.
- FIG. 4 shows another example of the evacuation head.
- FIG. 5 shows temperature reading locations
- FIG. 6 shows chart of temperature differences and heating steps.
- FIG. 7 shows a displaceable heater
- FIG. 8 illustrate the non-planar pane surface effects.
- FIG. 9 illustrate alternative closures.
- FIG. 10 illustrate alternative closures.
- FIG. 11 show the temperature difference between surrounding air T 1 and evacuation head T 2 .
- FIG. 1 shows a vacuum insulating glazing (VIG) unit with 2 glass panes 1 , 2 .
- the VIG production method is done by providing a first and second substantially parallel panes 1 , 2 , a plurality of pillars 4 and a peripheral seal 3 .
- the peripheral seal 3 is sealed for example by solder frit or solder glass or metal solder.
- the panes 1 , 2 are spaced by pillars 4 which withstand the pressure when the VIG is evacuated and the atmosphere acts on the VIG.
- the pane 1 has an evacuation hole 5 with an evacuation tube 6 .
- the evacuation tube 6 has a seal 7 for example solder glass or frit paste or metal solder. A part 6 a of the evacuation tube thereby remains enclosed in the evacuation hole 5 by the pane 1 and the seal 7 , leaving an evacuation tube tip 6 b exposed to the atmosphere.
- FIG. 2 shows a VIG now with an evacuation head 8 placed in contact with the exterior face of pane 1 .
- the VIG production method comprises heating the VIG in an oven to seal the peripheral seal 3 and the tube seal 7 .
- the evacuating of the void V is started.
- the seals 3 , 7 are still deformable and can hereby better settle properly.
- the evacuating of the void V is performed in a heating oven after substantially soldering the seal 3 .
- the evacuation head 8 covers the evacuation hole 5 and associated tube 6 and is adapted to evacuate the interior void V. After evacuation a heating element 9 melts the evacuation tube tip 6 b to seal the void V (known as the tip off step).
- the method of producing a VIG unit may hereby be performed in an oven.
- the evacuation head 8 performs best with a substantially hermetic contact to the glass pane 1 , 2 . This assumes the glass panes 1 , 2 are planar.
- the evacuation head 8 has a contact to the pane 1 , 2 having a diameter D.
- the diameter D is 50-100 mm.
- a large contact area between glass pane and the evacuation head) is desired so that the air molecules have difficulty passing i.e. longer travel to pass the hermetic contact area.
- the evacuation of the VIG exposes the glass panes 1 , 2 to an atmospheric pressure pressing towards the void V ( FIG. 1 , Pa) and this may warp the pane 1 , 2 surface as illustrated in FIG. 8 a .
- Further tempered glass is less planar than float glass due to the manufacturing process.
- tempered glass may have a curved periphery as illustrated in FIG. 8 b .
- the contact width D is less than 50 mm.
- the evacuation head 8 contact width D is below 45 mm.
- the evacuation head 8 contact width D is between 24-40 mm.
- the width D is substantially circular and a diameter D.
- pane non-planar face 1 a has better contact to a smaller evacuation head 8 . This is advantageous with tempered glass and during evacuation inside a heated oven.
- the evacuation head 8 with reduced width enables VIG units where the evacuation hole is located closer to the periphery.
- the evacuation hole 5 or tube 6 has a center substantially less than 25 mm from the pane 1 , 2 periphery, preferably less than 20 mm. In one example the evacuation hole 5 or tube 6 is further situated at the corner of the VIG and the center distance applies to both peripheries.
- the pillars 4 are spaced by a distance S. Typically in the range of 20-50 mm. With thick or strong glass panes 1 , 2 such as tempered glass the distance S is about 40 mm. It is desired to increase the distance S due to appearance and better thermal insulation.
- the evacuation head 8 contact width D is equal or smaller than the pillar 4 spacing distance S. Hereby an enhanced evacuation and VIG is provided.
- the evacuation head 8 needs to accommodate a heating element 9 and it needs a chamber 10 to accommodate the evacuation tube 6 .
- the evacuation head 8 may have at least one surrounding conduit 13 (for vacuum suction to fix the evacuation head 8 to the pane) which also requires room and evacuation tubes 11 , 12 to different vacuum pumps.
- a seal, O-ring or gasket towards the glass contact surface (not shown).
- a shield plate 15 placed in the chamber 10 so that the tube tip 6 b is exposed to the heat in the chamber 10 and the remaining VIG is not affected by the heat.
- VIG units Manufacture of VIG units is quite temperature dependent.
- the peripheral seal 3 , the glass pane 1 , 2 structure and treatments, the evacuation hole seal 7 and the degassing of materials all depend on the temperature.
- FIG. 6 shows three different steps
- the evacuation head 8 is used to tip off (i.e. seal off) the evacuation tube tip 6 b
- a heating element 9 in the evacuation head which shortly heats to for example 700-1200° C. degrees to melt the tip of the evacuation tube 6 .
- a method of producing a VIG unit according to the disclosure may comprise in all steps keeping the temperature below an annealing temperature, which detrimentally affects the tempered glass, such as keeping the temperature below 400° C., which is a common annealing temperature for many tempered glasses.
- the evacuating of the void V is done at 150° C. or more, preferably at 300° C. or more, it is preferable that the temperature of the oven is between 150° C. and 400° C., preferably between 300° C. and 400° C. during evacuation.
- the heater element is typically a fixed tungsten coil heater.
- the prior art tungsten coil has the drawback, that it can produce metal deposits on the glass and it is less durable and produces a varied seal of the tube tip 6 b .
- the prior art evacuation head comprising a tungsten coil has the drawback, that the tungsten coil can only be operated under sufficient vacuum, which prevents heating with a tungsten coil under atmospheric pressures.
- the evacuation head 8 has a heating element 9 .
- the heating element 9 may be a ceramic heater.
- the ceramic heating element 9 may comprise a heat generating resistor component.
- the ceramic heater may comprise a piezoresistive component.
- the ceramic heater may comprise an electrically resistive ceramic component.
- the ceramic heater 9 can be located within the evacuation head 8 .
- the power cables can for example be provided inside the evacuation tubes 11 , 12 and/or by the evacuation tubes 11 , 12 if they have sufficient electric conductivity. Hereby the hermetic properties of the evacuation head 8 are not affected by the h 9 .
- a ceramic heating element 9 is more durable and provides reliable VIG production.
- a ceramic heater 9 has a more constant heat profile. The heating element 9 in the prior art shortly raises the local temperature to melt the tip 6 b of the evacuation tube 6 . But, as explained below, a ceramic heating element 9 also enables heating to multiple temperatures.
- ceramic heaters that emit most strongly within the IR-absorptive region of glass, in particular silicon nitride and/or aluminum nitride ceramic heaters.
- Such ceramic heaters have particularly strong emission in the frequency band from 4 to 13 ⁇ m, making them particularly suitable in the VIG manufacture.
- the ceramic heating element 9 may be a cylinder as depicted in the figures of the present disclosure.
- the ceramic heater can be flat disc shaped, or where focused radiation is desired, e.g. for better tip off of the evacuation tube tip 6 b , parabolic shapes would be preferred.
- a further advantage of the use of ceramic heaters is the possibility to combine two or more differently shaped heaters to obtain a variety of radiation profiles based on the combined shaped heater. E.g. a flat disc shaped heater can be combined with an elongated cylinder shaped heater to provide both focused and planer energy to the surface. Further, by having separate energy supplies, the two or further heaters can be operated separately, depending on the design needs of the VIG manufacture.
- the VIG manufacture is enhanced when the temperature throughout the VIG body is continuous i.e. minimize the temperature differences across the body.
- the evacuation head 8 When the evacuation head 8 is placed on the pane face 1 a of the pane it affects the local temperature.
- FIG. 5 shows different locations for established temperature T 2 inside the evacuation head 8 . Temperature T 1 in the surrounding air. And temperature T 3 in the junction between the panes 1 , 2 .
- FIG. 6 shows a chart of the difference or delay in temperature during the VIG manufacture heating steps. It shows that the pane 1 glass temperature gradient is different at the location of the evacuation head 8 . The local temperature T 2 at the evacuation head 8 is lower.
- the evacuation head 8 can be equipped with a temperature sensor (not shown) to continuously measure the temperature difference exterior and interior to the evacuation head. A closed loop current feedback to the heating element 9 would then be advantageously employed.
- solder glass is a low temperature solder glass, in particular a lead-free low temperature solder glass, such as a VBZ-solder glass
- tempered glass is negatively influenced by high temperatures and long heating times, hence incomplete matching of the temperature T 2 under the evacuation head 8 to the solder temperature, will lead to longer soldering times and hence to increased loss of temper in the glass.
- the evacuating head 8 has fins to enhance the thermal transfer between the surrounding air and the evacuation head 8 .
- the temperature under the evacuation head 8 T 2 has a better match to the surrounding temperature T 1 .
- a further advantage of matching the temperature T 2 under the evacuation head 8 to the temperature of the surrounding air T 1 lies in securing adequate parture of the solvents and binders comprised in the solder glasses used for manufacturing the VIG units of the disclosure. If the temperatures under the evacuation head 8 is too low, reduced parture of solvents and binders will be observed, resulting in incomplete soldering of the solder glasses at a later stage or increased loss of temper due to increased soldering times.
- the heater 9 has a first heating temperature and a second heating temperature.
- the second heating temperature is nearly twice as high as the first heating temperature.
- the first heating temperature is the peripheral seal 3 solder temperature (for example 300-450° C.)
- the second heating temperature is the sealing temperature of the tube tip 6 b (for example in the interval of 700-1200° C.)
- the heating element 9 is on at least for 15 minutes for the first temperature.
- the heating element 9 substantially heats for the duration of at least one heat step, preferably the solder step.
- the state of the art, tungsten heaters are usually on for seconds only.
- the first temperature provides a substantially uniform VIG body temperature T 2 beneath the evacuation head 8 .
- T 2 substantially uniform VIG body temperature
- T 1 the surrounding temperature
- T 2 the temperature under the evacuation head 8 has a better match to the surrounding temperature T 1 .
- This provides a better tube seal 7 solder and the remaining VIG is not affected by heat gradients and stress.
- the evacuation head 8 first and second temperature is provided by a first heating element 9 and a second heating element 14 .
- the second heater may be outside the chamber 10 .
- each heater is customized to heat to the specified first and second temperature.
- FIG. 7 shows an evacuation head 8 with the ceramic heating element 9 .
- the ceramic heating element 9 is displaceable and configured to move towards the tube tip 6 b and contact the tube tip 6 b .
- the ceramic heating element 9 is heated to the tip off temperature such as of 700-1200° C. and brought into contact with the tube tip 6 b .
- the tube tip 6 b may be pressed by the ceramic heating element 9 and deformed during the seal off.
- the displaceable heater 9 may be employed in an oven during the VIG sealing and evacuation and tip off.
- the ceramic heating element 9 displacement may for example be in the interval of 1-3 mm.
- An actuator 16 may displace the ceramic heater 9 .
- the actuator 16 may be based on a material which expands when heated to the tip off temperature.
- the actuator may be an electric piezo actuator.
- the actuator 16 may operate by way of an electromagnet 17 such as an external electromagnet 17 , which displaces the heating element 9 .
- the present disclosure has been exemplified using an evacuation tube 6 inserted into evacuation hole 5 and soldered to the pane face 1 a of the first pane 1 .
- the present disclosure is not limited in the manner in which evacuation occurs, nor in the art or construction of the evacuation tube 6 .
- solder glass in the form of a solder glass or frit ring, cf. e.g. FIG. 5 of US 2012/0148795 A1
- This prior art method is advantageous in that it requires lower melting temperatures than what is sufficient for melting the glass of the evacuation tube.
- tungsten heater as employed in the prior art, and in particular with the large evacuation heads of the prior art, this has been observed to result in damage to the pane 1 , e.g. by the aforementioned deposit from the heater to the surface.
- FIG. 9 details elements of the further improvements, which will be described below.
- a disc shaped evacuation cap 18 has been soldered to the pane face 1 a of the first pane 1 .
- the evacuation cap 18 is partly inserted into the evacuation hole 5 .
- the cap 18 comprises an evacuation port 20 and a solder glass ring 19 arranged around the evacuation port 20 on the cap 18 , the solder glass ring 19 facing away from the interior void V, when the cap 18 is inserted into the evacuation hole 5 .
- the cap 18 has a depression for comprising the solder glass ring 19 and the evacuation port 20 .
- the evacuation cap 18 is manufactured from metal, although glasses are suitable as well.
- Such evacuation caps 18 are particularly preferable in VIG manufacture as they do not, contrary to the evacuation tubes 6 , require further capping to protect the sealed tube from external damage, hence saving manufacturing steps and cost without loss of VIG life time in use.
- their use has hitherto been limited by the fact that with the prior art evacuation heads, unwanted heating of either or both of pane 1 and cap 18 would lead to thermal expansion of these elements and crack formation where pane 1 and cap 18 interact.
- the present, localized heating obtainable by the evacuation heads of the present disclosure overcome these problems.
- FIGS. 10 a and 10 b Also suitable for use with the evacuation head 8 of the disclosure is a disc shaped evacuation cap 21 as depicted in FIGS. 10 a and 10 b , wherein the solder glass ring 19 and the evacuation port 20 are no longer located on the top of the evacuation cap 21 , but rather at its periphery and in between evacuation cap 21 and glass pane 1 .
- the disc shaped evacuation cap 21 is prepositioned in the evacuation hole 5 and provided with a discontinuous and/or dented solder 22 between the evacuation cap 21 and the glass pane 1 , wherein the spaces and/or dents 23 between the discontinuous or indented solder 22 serve the function of the evacuation port 20 of the previous embodiment.
- This evacuation cap is particularly suitable for use with a flat, disc shaped ceramic heating element 9 , having the added benefit that the distance between heater and evacuation cap can be reduced to within 0.5 mm to 2 mm for improved heat transfer between heater and evacuation cap.
- FIG. 11 wherein is shown the experimentally measured surrounding air temperature T 1 and the temperature T 2 under the evacuation head 8 over 45 minutes.
- the solder seal 7 for the evacuation tube 6 is temperature sensitive because the seal 7 requires enough heat to seal properly (for example 300-450° C.) and the reduced temperature beneath the evacuation head 8 as explained in FIGS. 5 and 6 may prevent a proper seal.
- This is solved by the heating elements 9 , 14 and/or evacuation head 8 as presented in this disclosure.
- the disclosed evacuation head 8 provides more uniform temperature because it covers less area.
- the heating element 9 and optionally heating element 14 provide a temperature at the evacuation head 8 which matches the surrounding oven sealing temperature.
- the ceramic heater enables a compact evacuation head with enhanced hermetic contact and enhanced thermal distribution below the evacuation head.
- solder seal 7 for the evacuation tube 6 is temperature sensitive because the tube tip off heat (700-1200° C.) may deteriorate the seal 7 and may weaken a tempered glass pane or coated pane.
- This drawback may be solved by the shield plate 15 ( FIG. 4 ) or by a ceramic heater 9 as disclosed (which may also be displaceable as explained).
- the disclosed embodiment of the ceramic heating element 9 and the disclosed embodiment of the displaceable heater 9 and the disclosed embodiment of the evacuation head 8 with a defined size D are suitable for combination, but likewise the three embodiments may also be employed separately.
- the present disclosure is suitable and advantageous for a tempered glass VIG.
- the evacuation head 8 and/or ceramic heater 9 may be employed outside an oven.
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